HTTP SMS API - URL template
This guide gives you instructions on how to create an URL template to be
used in the redirecturl, the continueurl and the reporturl parameters of the
HTTP API sendmessage method.
Introduction
If the the redirecturl or the continueurl
parameters are included in your sendmessage HTTP request, the SMS server will
return a response containing the URL. If the URL specified contains
certain keywords. The keywords will be replaced to the appropriate values
corresponding to the submitted message. In other words an URL template is
an URL that will be processed by the SMS gateway before it is used in the
HTTP response. Processing means, that certain keywords will be replaced in
the URL.
For example if you specify the following URL in the continueurl parameter:
http://www.myserver.com/index.asp?msgid=$messageid&statusmsg=$statusmessage
It will be modified into this when it is returned in the HTTP response:
http://www.myserver.com/index.asp?msgid=AC32DEF&statusmsg=Message+accepted+for+delivery
Note that the keywords $messageid and $statusmessage have been replaced. The
message id of the submitted messages is substituted for the $messageid
keyword in the URL and the status message of the submission is is substituted
for the $statusmessage keywrod.
Ozeki NG SMS Gateway replaces the keywords specified in the table bellow.
How to use?
To pass an URL template in the redirecturl, the continueurl or in the reporturl
parameter, the URL template must be urlencoded. This is necessary, because
otherwise the HTTP syntax of the sendmessage method would break.
To urlencode your URL template you can use the online url encoding tool
(available at Ozeki online url encoding tool) or
you can do the encoding manually.
The URL template we used in the example above looks like this before the encoding:
http://www.myserver.com/index.asp?msgid=$messageid&statusmsg=$statusmessage
After urlencogind it will look like this:
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myserver.com%2Findex.asp%3Fmsgid%3D%24messageid%26statusmsg%3D%24statusmessage
If you want to include this URL template in your submit request, your request would
look like this:
http://127.0.0.1:9501/api?action=sendmessage&username=admin&password=abc123&
recipient=06203105366&messagetype=SMS:TEXT&messagedata=Hello+World&redirecturl=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myserver.com%2Findex.asp%3Fmsgid%3D%24messageid%26statusmsg%3D%24statusmessage
Keywords
URL templates can contain the following keywords
Keyword | Replaced to |
Can be used in the following
parameter of the HTTP API sendmessage method |
statuscode |
The result code of the message submission |
redirecturl continueurl reporturl |
statusmessage |
The status message of the message submission. (The statuscode explained.) |
redirecturl continueurl reporturl |
messageid |
The id of the submitted message |
redirecturl continueurl reporturl |
recipient |
The recipient phone number of the submitted message |
redirecturl continueurl reporturl |
originator |
The sender name or sender phone number of the submitted message |
redirecturl continueurl reporturl |
messagetype |
The messagetype of the submitted message |
redirecturl continueurl reporturl |
messagedata |
The messagedata of the submitted message |
redirecturl continueurl reporturl |
submitdate |
The date and time value of the message submission event.
The date format is YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.
| reporturl |
deliveredtonetworkdate | The date and time
value of the message
delivered to network event. The date format is YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss. |
reporturl |
deliveredtohandsetdate | The date and time
value of the
message delivered to handset event. The date format is YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss. |
reporturl |
status | The current status of the submitted message.
Possible values:
deliveredtonetwork
deliveredtohandset
deliveryfailed
If the delivery fails, the statuscode and statusmessage parameters contain
the errorcode and the errormessage returned by the service provider
| reporturl |
If more then one messages are submitted with a single HTTP request, the URL
template will contain the values corresponding to the last message in the list.
More information
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Multiple SMS
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